setquk

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   by setquk 8y ago

   I use kicad because the moment Eagle asks me to sign into my Autodesk account I’m done with it.
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   by setquk 8y ago

   Fritzing is vile. https://hackaday.com/2016/10/11/creating-a-pcb-in-everything... Kicad is easy enough. I just followed the tutorial.
3. 423.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   I’ve done a ton of those boards with JLCPCB now. I think possibly 200 boards. It’s ridiculously cheap. They’re the best of the lot as well. I’ve tried others but they all seem to have layer registration problems or screw up the edges of you
4. 424.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   This. I dumped my trusty UV box and stacks of chemicals earlier this year, developed some patience and get JLCPCB to do the honours. It’s cheaper for me to run a not too small 2 layer board there than pay for the substrate and consumables h
5. 425.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   Unfortunately so but I’m happy with it here.
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   by setquk 8y ago

   Very true. This is one reason I’ve stopped paying for it and I know a lot of people who have walked away from their products in the last few years. They’re too expensive and we have higher priority things we need to spend money on. Also we’
7. 427.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   More: we disrespect your privacy and can’t get away with it there.
8. 428.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   Results are somewhat variable yes. I’ve had reprinted scans turn up and totally trashed books. Success rate is about 3 in 5 though which isn’t bad considering the failures are quicky refunded. Some of the eBay sellers are better priced and
9. 429.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   True. I do FT8 when I'm depressed from having no CW contacts. It's amazing the distance you can cover with it.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Thanks for offer. Minus an antenna at the moment unfortunately due to a tree attack. Maybe in a couple of weeks :)
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    by setquk 8y ago

    I don't think it's inaccurate, just subjective. Yes it's the 80m and 2m local rag chew I avoid and the people spewing contests all over 40 and 20. I spend most of my time doing CW and with a soldering iron in my hand. Life is
12. 432.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    This is a big problem. I find CW to be populated with less annoying people.
13. 433.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    Definitely. 17000km QSO the other day with CW on 6 watts out. FT8 bores the crap out of me unfortunately.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Also to note James Gosling works at Amazon since May '17. They clearly have a vested interest in Java.
15. 435.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    Microsoft .Net team take note.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Indeed. I will be called lazy here but I just use the default vi or vim install on a Linux / Unix box usually and live with it. It turns to my advantage when I am suddenly on a box without all the usual desk toys available. Just sit do
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Trailer for when the wind blows here: https://youtu.be/4h1lRqUBuSI This was devastating at the time as it was about right. Incidentally if you’re UK based or in the UK, a good day out is Kelvedon Hatch “secret nuclear bunke
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    by setquk 8y ago

    10% THD though. Ugh.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    International Rectifier / Vishay IRF510’s do this. I know from experience building RF amps with them. Wear safety glasses!
20. 440.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    It’s not really. People like everyone to think it is. The difference is the building blocks of circuits are different due to function and most of the time you are interested in power transfer (which requires different impedance matching rel
21. 441.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    I was forever trying to find enough old car batteries to get more volts when I was a kid for precisely this reason. That was until I nearly burned the shed down charging one up. I was confined to alkalines then. Boo hiss.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    That works until someone has a few beers at lunch and proceeds to come back and start smashing things (been there :)
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    by setquk 8y ago

    They're also extremely easy to conceptualise and use.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Sometimes locking out files on complex changes has a better outcome than a modify-merge cycle I have found. This doesn't scale out to lots of engineers however. If you're doing critical heavy lifting or refactoring, merging inline
25. 445.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    Yes but the clock is ticking on its demise.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    WCF, WWF, UWP, AppFabric, EF incompatibility etc etc. Basically the entire enterprise stack. And I’m not even talking about the whole original .net and com stuff.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Python 3 was released a decade ago. Python 2 is still supported until 2020. 2to3 exists. Python actually give a shit about their users. What a lot of people seem to forget about .Net is that for those of us who have been around since day on
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Excellent. I look forward to all of our .Net Framework only 3rd party dependencies being unsupported and abandoned instantly because there's no way anyone is going to bother supporting two distinct platform versions. And also the humon
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    by setquk 8y ago

    jQuery 3.3. We started with 1.2. Custom build. Quite thin.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Yes but it's the same brand.